geoffreywh Posted January 1, 2015 Posted January 1, 2015 What's with this Woolworths "pop up" scam ? The sooner that goes the better this site will be...
JabiruWeekendWarrior Posted January 1, 2015 Posted January 1, 2015 I have not seen it on this site so far. Can you describe this Woolworths pop up scam?
red750 Posted January 1, 2015 Posted January 1, 2015 Do you have the pop-up blocker of your browser turned on?
Admin Posted January 1, 2015 Posted January 1, 2015 What's with this Woolworths "pop up" scam ? The sooner that goes the better this site will be... Nothing to do with site Geoff, you must have got some kind of virus. I presume that you are getting this whilst using a PC so check your installed software for anything that is not right. You often get these kind of malicious applications when you install free software of some kind and they also install other software that you didn't intend to install
kgwilson Posted January 1, 2015 Posted January 1, 2015 I am always fixing friends PCs when they download free stuff. They never read the conditions of acceptance or even details on the screen that say all these wonderful products will be installed with the check box already ticked.
facthunter Posted January 1, 2015 Posted January 1, 2015 If you get it for nothing, you will pay for it in some way. There are many traps for the unwary.. Nev 1
Admin Posted January 1, 2015 Posted January 1, 2015 Yep, and sometimes the only way to "really" get rid of them is a complete reinstall of your PC from a completely reformatted hard disk. I do a complete reformat and reinstall every 6 months any way because it keeps my PC in best performing condition and I keep my PC for 2 years only and then pass it to the kids for another 2 years, but then I build my own PC anyway so I get the best mix of components
Jabiru7252 Posted January 2, 2015 Posted January 2, 2015 Holy Moly - a complete re-install!!! That means you then have to go through the millions of updates etc. After tuning windows and my hard drive I cloned it. I then clone it once a week, that way, if the drive fails or things crash badly I just grab the clone and install that. No doing updates and reinstalling software. By the way, I use synctoy to backup new and changed data every day. Never lost a byte of data in years. The cloning software is Acronis - it came with my solid state drive. Works a treat. Windows backup is a bad joke.
geoffreywh Posted January 2, 2015 Author Posted January 2, 2015 Oh so sorry. I just "updated " to windows 8. and I'm getting these pop ups everytime I use password manager. It must have come in with that...God I hate those buggers...So Sorry again!
kgwilson Posted January 2, 2015 Posted January 2, 2015 Ah Windoze Hate. It's not an upgrade IMHO. It allows touch screen stuff but most PC users don't want that anyway. I still use XP which is no longer supported and in a way is good as there's nothing specifically targeted at XP these days. I have not had an issue for over 5 years now. Don't use IE explorer (Chrome or Firefox are much better browsers) install a good antivirus & be very wary of free stuff & read all the fine print. 2
Thruster87 Posted January 2, 2015 Posted January 2, 2015 You should run a program like CCleaner once in a while to get rid of your browsing history and the cookies the sites leave behind. Cheers 3
geoffreywh Posted January 2, 2015 Author Posted January 2, 2015 No, I have used that. A horrible program had come in with a photo editing program that I was trying. "Malwarebytes" fixed it for me...........
dazza 38 Posted January 2, 2015 Posted January 2, 2015 You should run a program like CCleaner once in a while to get rid of your browsing history and the cookies the sites leave behind. Cheers Yup I do this daily when I use my Laptop
bexrbetter Posted January 2, 2015 Posted January 2, 2015 You should run a program like CCleaner once in a while to get rid of your browsing history and the cookies the sites leave behind. Cheers Malwarebytes has been long recognised and well trusted as the ultimate free malware proggy and CC Cleaner gets a few different items as well. Remember, if you run CC Cleaner with out isolating "cookies", then you will have to re-log into all of your regular websites. http://www.malwarebytes.org/
Neil_S Posted January 2, 2015 Posted January 2, 2015 Yup - Malwarebytes is very good....and Firefox with Windows 7..... 2
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